Bug#539624: segfaults if the system doesn't have hal

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Rogério Brito wrote:
> Package: rhythmbox
> Version: 0.12.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I just installed rhythmbox on my system (that's using only a window
> manager and no desktop environment).
> 
> Unfortunately, rhythmbox segfaults when hal is not running:
> 
> ,----
> | rbrito at chagas:~$ rhythmbox &
> | [1] 2056
> | rbrito at chagas:~$ 
> | (rhythmbox:2056): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported
> | 
> | ** (rhythmbox:2056): WARNING **: Failed to initialize hal : (null)
> | 
> | process 2056: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7fc81a25dac0 user data 0x11cfae0, but no such filter has been added
> | libhal.c 3126 : LibHalContext *ctx is NULL
> | 
> | [1]+  Segmentation fault      rhythmbox
> | rbrito at chagas:~$

Can you get a gdb backtrace? Please install rhythmbox-dbg and libglib2.0-0-dbg
before it.

I'd do it myself, but removing hal tries to remove X too :)

Anyway the next version of rhythmbox will support udev, but that may be still a
bit far.

Cheers,
Emilio

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